rcarbon - Calibration and Analysis of Radiocarbon Dates

Enables the calibration and analysis of radiocarbon dates, often but not exclusively for the purposes of archaeological research. It includes functions not only for basic calibration, uncalibration, and plotting of one or more dates, but also a statistical framework for building demographic and related longitudinal inferences from aggregate radiocarbon date lists, including: Monte-Carlo simulation test (Timpson et al 2014 <doi:10.1016/j.jas.2014.08.011>), random mark permutation test (Crema et al 2016 <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0154809>) and spatial permutation tests (Crema, Bevan, and Shennan 2017 <doi:10.1016/j.jas.2017.09.007>).

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baorista - Bayesian Aoristic Analyses

Provides an alternative approach to aoristic analyses for archaeological datasets by fitting Bayesian parametric growth models and non-parametric random-walk Intrinsic Conditional Autoregressive (ICAR) models on time frequency data (Crema (2024)<doi:10.1111/arcm.12984>). It handles event typo-chronology based timespans defined by start/end date as well as more complex user-provided vector of probabilities.

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nimbleCarbon - Bayesian Analyses of Radiocarbon Dates with NIMBLE

Provides utility functions and custom probability distribution for Bayesian analyses of radiocarbon dates within the 'nimble' modelling framework. It includes various population growth models, nimbleFunction objects, as well as a suite of functions for prior and posterior predictive checks for demographic inference (Crema and Shoda (2021) <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0251695>) and other analyses.

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